Theroux The Keyhole

Louis Theroux is an award-winning journalist and documentary film-maker whose programmes are shown all over the world. His 30-year career has seen him spend time with inmates at San Quentin prison and Miami Jail, gamble with the high-rollers at a Las Vegas mega-casino, get to know dementia patients and their families in Phoenix, Arizona and grapple with the latest incarnation of the American far right as they spread hatred online. His feature-length documentary, My Scientology Movie, was released in 2016. He has been awarded three BAFTAs and a Royal Television Society Television Award for his work. He set up independent production company Mindhouse in 2019 alongside filmmakers Arron Fellows and Nancy Strang and in 2020 he created an award-winning hit podcast called Grounded which featured interviews with Michaela Coel, Helena Bonham Carter, and Oliver Stone among many others. His autobiography, Gotta Get Theroux This, was published in 2019 and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Theroux the Keyhole is his latest book.

Come round to Louis Theroux's house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger . . .

Louis's latest TV series about weirdness - the one involving the American far right, home-grown jihadis, and SoundCloud rappers - has been unexpectedly derailed by the onset of a global pandemic. Now he finds himself locked down in a location even more full of pitfalls, surprises and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home. Theroux the Keyhole is the candidly honest and hilarious diary of a man attempting to navigate the perils of work and family life, locked down in Covid World with his wife, two teenagers and a Youtube-addict fiver year-old.

Why is his wife so intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks's daily workouts? Can he reinvent himself as a podcast host? Why has the internet gone nuts for his old journalistic compadre Joe Exotic? And will his teenage sons ever see him as anything other than 'cringe'?This is Louis at his insightful best, as month-by-month he documents his year of unforeseen new challenges - and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him.